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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 442445" data-attributes="member: 57984">Season 3 benefitted from the fact that the writers still seemed interested in their characters, but not really too much in Season 4. And as I&#039;ve said before, S.A.D. subtly sabotages anything that had potential -- it may be the most corrosive creative choice DYNASTY ever made because, among other things, it stops the actors from selling the flawed script material.&nbsp;&nbsp; And, despite Alexis&#039; flamboyant scene-stealing, so goes Krystle so goes DYNASTY. But Eileen Pollock seemed downright contemptuous of the actor and the character, and the showrunners soon lost -- or never had -- any interest in writing for a &quot;nice&quot; character. (When Linda asked the Pollocks to allow Krystle to do more interesting things, she was told no ... so it&#039;s back to pouring coffee over all those bouquets). How could the producers not understand that the yin-yang between the two ladies was the key? And that Krystle&#039;s poetic tragedienne made Alexis&#039; dazzling sociopathy more interesting.It was Biblical. For about 10 minutes.&nbsp;&nbsp; But after that 3x3 scene in the kitchen as Alexis is preparing to leave the property and marry Cecil, you never really saw great verbal spat between the two women for eons. Yes, they&#039;d talk about each other constantly, but it&#039;s not like JR and Cliff Barnes who only had a face-to-face meeting once or twice a year... These two archetypal women have to be at the near edge of emotional violence on a bi-episodic basis.S.A.D. doomed even the rare tongue-fights they did.Krystle&#039;s Season 9 scene in the bistro with Sable, when the latter &#039;accidentally&#039; reveals the identity of the body in the lake, haunts me a little bit: how the scene could have worked so much better -- with no change in script or direction -- had the Linda of Seasons 1 or 2 been delivering Krystle&#039;s lines. Instead, we get that airy falsetto, and it hurts the scene; S.A.D. had been dropped by Season 8 but, for some reason, nobody remembered to tell Linda.&nbsp; But A-V malformations tend to do that. After Krystle stops throwing those plates down the hall, outrageous though the moment is, I find that -- only seconds later -- when Blake is trying to soothe her, and Krystle gets a confused close-up set to minimalist piano tinkling in the score, is a little eerie. In my head, and perhaps Krystle&#039;s, it has something profound to do with what happened to the show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 442445, member: 57984"] Season 3 benefitted from the fact that the writers still seemed interested in their characters, but not really too much in Season 4. And as I've said before, S.A.D. subtly sabotages anything that had potential -- it may be the most corrosive creative choice DYNASTY ever made because, among other things, it stops the actors from selling the flawed script material. And, despite Alexis' flamboyant scene-stealing, so goes Krystle so goes DYNASTY. But Eileen Pollock seemed downright contemptuous of the actor [B][I]and [/I][/B]the character, and the showrunners soon lost -- or never had -- any interest in writing for a "nice" character. (When Linda asked the Pollocks to allow Krystle to do more interesting things, she was told no ... so it's back to pouring coffee over all those bouquets). How could the producers not understand that the yin-yang between the two ladies was the key? And that Krystle's poetic tragedienne made Alexis' dazzling sociopathy more interesting. It was Biblical. For about 10 minutes. But after that 3x3 scene in the kitchen as Alexis is preparing to leave the property and marry Cecil, you never really saw great verbal spat between the two women for eons. Yes, they'd talk about each other constantly, but it's not like JR and Cliff Barnes who only had a face-to-face meeting once or twice a year... These two archetypal women have to be at the near edge of emotional violence on a bi-episodic basis. S.A.D. doomed even the rare tongue-fights they did. Krystle's Season 9 scene in the bistro with Sable, when the latter 'accidentally' reveals the identity of the body in the lake, haunts me a little bit: how the scene could have worked so much better -- with no change in script or direction -- had the Linda of Seasons 1 or 2 been delivering Krystle's lines. Instead, we get that airy falsetto, and it hurts the scene; S.A.D. had been dropped by Season 8 but, for some reason, nobody remembered to tell Linda. But A-V malformations tend to do that. After Krystle stops throwing those plates down the hall, outrageous though the moment is, I find that -- only seconds later -- when Blake is trying to soothe her, and Krystle gets a confused close-up set to minimalist piano tinkling in the score, is a little eerie. In my head, and perhaps Krystle's, it has something profound to do with what happened to the show. [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?